Good afternoon, welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee for the San Francisco board of supervisors for today, july 13th, 2020. My name is aaron peskin, im the chair of the committee joined by vicechair and safai and member dean preston. Our clerk is ms. Erika major, ms. Major, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislation and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taking to the state wide stay at home order and all local, state and federal orders declaration and directives. Committee members will attend the meetings through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and they are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be
[roll call] clerk commissioner taylor, you have a quorum. Vice president taylor so as im sure the public has noted, were using a different platform. Members of the public who wish to make Public Comment on the items in this agenda, the number is 4084189388, and the access code is 1469442932. As always, members of the commission, ill a and presentl ask you to mute your mic until its time for you to be heard. Hopefully, things will go smoothly again. If not, let us know in advance. Im going to give two minutes for Public Comment tonight. Clerk thank you. So for the members of the public, this meeting is being televised by sfgtv. If youre interested in making Public Comment, dial 4084189388, and the access code 1469442932, then pound, and pound again. When its time for Public Comment, president starthree. When you hear the moderator say your line is unmuted, this is your opportunity to provide Public Comment. You will have two minutes to provide Public Comment. Once your two minutes has e
Tumlin will talk about this, but last week we did have a press event with supervisors peskin and preston announcing that we will be delaying our fare increases. Obviously when we were voting upon that fare increase, we could not have understood the magnitude of what was before us and not to mention we didnt really have a path forward in being able to fund the operations, so i want to thank you supervisors peskin and preston for working with us to come up with solutions which i cannot tell you what they are today. But to look at how we can fill those funding gaps which primarily effect us in year two of the budget cycle, not so much in year one. That will be coming back to us in the future. And also with that we will not be having a Charter Amendment related to sfmta. Thank director tumlin for his work in working with the supervisors, and just say it was a pleasure to be there to represent the board last week at kirkland lard. And with that, i will turn it on to the next item. All right
More gratifying by the incredible support that we have by our leaders and i dont take that granted at all. Were privileged to have it. I cant tell you how much we appreciate your remarks and the steadfast and unwavering support for all of us in the work that we do. Our staff, us, i look around and i see people who have dedicated many years, entire careers, have paused their retirements to continue work for us and everything you do for this city and the people who live here just means an incredible amount. From the very beginning of this pandemic, our staff has been on the front lines everyday, no matter what you do, if its taking care of patients, keeping the hospitals clean and safe for patients, visitors and staff, fe feeding people, testing, opening new units. The creative ways you do them has been endless in the past three months. The importance of the work, the quality of the work, the amount of work, not to mention the pace has been nothing, nothing short of heroic. Its an amazin
Sheesh. Chair fewer president yee, are you done with questioning, because i see supervisor ronen in the queue. President yee yeah, i have a few more, but go ahead. Chair fewer okay. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen i dont want to cutoff president yee. I actually have a similar version of a question, so maybe you can finish up because i very much agreed with everything you had to say. Im wondering and this is sort of a similar question to president yee, how decisions are made specifically on timing and use and selection of awardees for nofas, r. F. P. S, and r. F. Q. S. And the reason im asking this is very similar in line to what supervisor walton and president yee were saying is often times, it feels like the same Large Developers get awarded and selected time and time again, and im just wondering what mohcd is doing to improve capacity in smaller organizations led by black and brown folks so that theyre able to compete with the large, Nonprofit Developers who are awarded pretty mu